The Big Three discussing the merits of the overlapping golf grip
In February, 1945, the Big Three, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, met at Yalta in the Crimea . With the war moving to closure, the Big Three take a break from the rigors of constant negotiations and deliberations of closing out the war.
Here, the Big Three relax after a round of golf. Moving from a discussion of how to divvy up Berlin, they get into a heated debate about the merits of various golf grips. Churchill, a poor putter, also laments about his problems with the yips (a problem, it seems, that stemmed from just after the Battle of Britain), and wonders aloud to Roosevelt about ‘just why doesn’t someone invent a long handled putter that you can stick into your belly to steady yourself’. Roosevelt expresses amazement at this and remarks that it would never fly by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club Rules Committee.
Stalin, a big proponent of the interlocking grip, chimes in with an outline of his plans to build a network of golf resorts in Siberia, a then little known golfing ‘paradise’. His plans include free transportation for all tourists and the development of the Gulag School of Golf providing free instruction for all of the Russian people so ‘they can really learn the game’. He boasts that with his plans, Russians will occupy the top 100 spots of the PGA Tour.
Tags: Franklin D. Roosevelt, golf, golf grip, golf grips, Joseph Stalin, overlapping golf grip, Winston Churchill, Yalta
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